In 1928, the Griffin-Spalding Board of Education dedicated ten acres for the Griffin School, which was completed in 1929 and known as Negro Vocational High School until 1949. It was one of 243 Georgia schools built with Rosenwald Funds and included four classrooms, two home economics laboratories, and a cannery building to give high school students job-ready skills. The building has a unique floor plan while retaining the standard Tuskegee-designed east-to-west windows. In 1950, the addition of a classroom building, gymnasium, and athletic field house established Fairmont High School, and in 1957 a new Fairmont High School was constructed next to the property. The last graduating class received diplomas in 1972 before schools integrated, and the original building was later restored through the 2016 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, with Our Legacy Museum established in 2024. The school was part of the broader Rosenwald school movement that grew from a partnership begun in 1911 between Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute and Julius Rosenwald, whose Rosenwald Fund, created in 1917, supported the education of African-American children in the rural segregated South through matching grants, technical support, and local cooperation between Black and White communities. By the time the fund closed in 1948, it had helped facilitate the construction of more than 4,977 schools, 217 teachers' homes, and 163 shop buildings in 883 counties across 15 southern states, and one-third of all Black children attended a Rosenwald School.